Description:
This program will cover Attorney General Sessions’s June 11, 2018, opinion in Matter of A-B-, an asylum case involving a woman who had been the victim of horrific domestic violence in El Salvador. Sessions’s opinion overturned Matter of A-R-C-G-¸ a 2014 decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals which held that victims of domestic violence who are unable to leave their relationships may qualify for asylum under U.S. immigration law. Our panelists will discuss this new decision and what it means for future asylum applicants who are applying for relief based on persecution they experienced at the hands of private actors, rather than the government. They will also discuss amicus briefs that each of them participated in that were filed in Matter of A-B-.